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People making bird feeders

Community Garden Updates: February 2025

Find out all about how we've kickstarted the new year at the Community Garden, including learning about and helping birds and valentines themed fun!

Common whitethroat

Breeding bird surveys at Strawberry Hill

Breeding bird surveys at Strawberry Hill have many challenges, as despite the huge amount of birdlife, you see hardly any of them. Our favourite exceptions to this are the male whitethroats which…

Singing wren sitting on branch in bloom.

Breeding birds top ten

Sian Williams, Senior Monitoring and Research Officer, provides a brief summary of the top ten breeding bird species recorded on our breeding bird transects over the last 10 years.

Waxwing

Waxwing winters

Discover the bird that’s a favourite amongst birdwatchers, despite the fact that most rarely see one.

Blackbird with nest material, sparrowhawk, cuckoo and moorhen feeding chick

Bird surveys on nature reserves

Find out more about breeding bird surveys on Wildlife Trust nature reserves, what they can tell us, and how to get involved

Common tern in flight, looking down

Turn and tern again?!

At Pitsford Water nature reserve, we are fortunate to have six tern rafts which instantly attracted a breeding colony of terns to the reservoir back in 2000 when the first raft was installed,…

Male blackbird feeding on orange rowan berries

Berries for the birds

The silhouette scaffolds of branches expose sleeping bare stick thorns - and bright future life

Redwing by Chris Gomersall/2020VISION

Winter thrushes

With the exception of the ring ouzel, you can find all our thrushes in winter, and they are quite easy to identify. All are small to medium sized birds with an upright stance, often found feeding…

Orchid survey

Surveying during Covid - take 2!

An update on how how we've been safely conducting our surveys during the second survey season of the pandemic...

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